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By Elizabeth Brewster
 Four years ago, the problem of New Jersey’s contaminated sites backlog came to a head with the “Kiddie Kollege” disaster: A day care facility was found to have been built on unremediated property that had once housed a thermometer factory. As young children were tested for possible exposure to mercury and all its attendant risks, the state Dept. of Environmental Protection was forced to acknowledge that its site remediation program was “broken,” says Irene Kropp, assistant commissioner for site remediation with the New Jersey DEP.
“In some ways, [a licensed professional] program is no different—you have an environmental regulator, a responsible party for the work, and a consultant who actually does the work,” says Janine Commerford, LSP, assistant commissioner for the Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup with the Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection.
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With the Washington budget showing no signs of a quick-and-easy resolution, federal brownfields programs are unlikely to get much of …
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Brownfields and crop development—for the express intent of producing foods—are concepts that have always been strange bedfellows. Mutually exclusive. An…
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PROJECT GOAL: To revitalize land that had been sitting idle for years by putting the property back into productive…
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Melanie Gregg Buffalo
Community Programs Marketing Manager for the City of Buffalo Economic
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Jon M. Williams Buffalo, N.Y
Founder, Ontario Specialty Contracting, Inc. (OSC)
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Doug Scott Springfield
Director, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
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Brownfield Stateside Report
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In Michigan, some are predicting a better business climate for redevelopment and regulatory closure of contaminated properties thanks to a bill Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was scheduled to sign last week. The new regulations should have a positive impact on commercial real estate development and brownfields redevelopment resulting in the creation of jobs. |
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by VeruTEK
A property located on a bank of the East River and in a densely developed residential and commercial area, had its work cut out for it from an environmental remediation standpoint. The mission was to clean up the land and ultimately make one puzzle piece to a larger urban revitalization project that would be redeveloped as a public library and park ranger station.
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